Saturday, 19 March 2022
Eh, this is in the drafts folder, I might as well send it. Alt.sewing isn't exactly crowded.
I assumed that I could copy the post onto the clipboard, then open
2022SEW1.HTM and paste it, but it turned out that paste is one of the functions that don't work under DOSBOX. I can, however, create a Notepad file directly in directory Pcw, and move its contents with PC-Write tools.DH is still working long and hard on making me a computer that runs DOXBOX under Linux, and so far it seems to have the user-defined keys (It *can't* overwrite them with Windows keys!) and would be ready to start using for real . . . were it not that all but one of the files is Read Only.
Play with the toy machine came to the top of my priority list today
Friday, 25 March 2022: I think I already posted about the toy sewing macine.
******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* Opening 2022SEW has gotten too complicated for quick casual remarks, so I created a post in Agent.Tuesday 8 March 2022
Bra White Linen #6 blue is being worn only in the house in case I suddenly need to change. I do hope that I can resume work on the yellow-linen bras Real Soon.
They will be only a temporary fix, because that yellow linen should have been in a dollar-a-yard bin.
Wednesday 9 March 2022
#6 hit the rag bin of the laundry hamper today -- right after I washed all the rags.
When I took the clothes off the line, I found that a hem of an old hand towel, now doing duty as a dish towel, had come undone on one end, so I stopped folding long enough to re-sew it -- careful not to put it down at any time, because it's a *dish* towel.
I quadruple-pressed the other selvage edge of the new sheet today. That will be the last time the iron will be required for this project.
But I did climb back up and plug it in again when my favorite mask came out of the washer, so I could iron the headband dry, then hang it over the chairback where I keep it so the crinkle-gauze veil could dry.
I think I have time to pin before supper -- I've laid out ingredients to combine and zap.
6:09Pinned and sewed too. I set a count-up timer, and it took me eleven and a quarter minutes to stitch six yards of hem. I haven't measured the length of the straightened fabric.
But I no longer feel up to thinking, so I'll read funnies and Usenet until bedtime.
Thursday, 10 March 2022
To start the day off right, I started pinning before breakfast, and finished just when my scrambled egg with potato and onion was ready.
I set the count-up timer again, and sewing 118 inches of hem took
00:19:29 (when false precision is removed, twenty minutes). Ten of the twenty were spent starting and stopping. It took five minutes and some seconds to sew the first end of the hem closed, and much to my surprise, the other end, which didn't require fussing and fuming, took from 00:16:30 to 00:19:29.It's only 11:13. I expect to put this sheet on the bed tonight.
11:45I forgot to start the count-up timer before pinning, but that is just as well because I got interrupted. I found that I'd sewed a pleat into the side hem, but this was at the very end, so I just cut the stitch that was holding it and trimmed the ends of the threads.
12:11It took 18:?? to sew the hem. I pushed the wrong button, the count-up timer didn't stop, and I was busy inspecting the hem and didn't notice until 19:05.
The shorter time was partly experience hemming, mostly because I did a better job of pinning.
14:01Ready to take a nap under my new sheet. If they don't shrink a *lot* in the wash, both sheets will need to be shortened.
Friday, 11 March 2022
7:59 pmAt long last back to the bras! But I don't remember what I was doing.
So instead of sewing, I copied 2021SEW2.HTM to 2022SEW1.HTM, deleted the top of 2022SEW1.HTM, and commented out the bottom of 2021SEW2.HTM.
Didn't get a start on copying notes from STOPGAP.TXT, but I made a pass at learning to use FileZilla. Logged in just fine, but clicking "transfer" didn't get me anywhere. I hope it doesn't insist on copying the entire drive, because I can't get the entire drive ready to copy before the first files I cleaned up need cleaning again.
******************************************************************* *******************************************************************Saturday, 25 March 2022
One right clicks on the file or folder one wants to move, then chooses "upload" from the menu. I'm seriously considering resuming mantenance of LETTERS. PAGESEW is too huge to delete and replace before I've had a little practice. And too complicated to maintain with a crippled text editor.
Yesterday, DH gave up on trying to gain access to the files. Alas, I can't understand how to use a computer, and he can't understand what I'm trying to do.
Programs, like shoes, have to FIT. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't matter how good it is.